We want to see YOUR pride and joy in our pages, so you can share what you ride and restore with fellow readers. Email your hi-res shot to bsimmonds@mortons.co.uk or mail in some photos to the address at the front of the mag. Let us know what you’ve d

Progress on my latest Super Six had virtually ground to a halt halfway through November. Okay, so the last package of parts from Z-Power contained all the new bits I needed to complete the assembly of the frame, but I couldn’t get it up on its wheels

We've teamed up with The Hobby Company (www.hobbyco.net) which distributes Tamiya plastic motorcycle kits in the UK to give our favourite restoration one of its amazing motorcycles in miniature. So, send in your pictures of your bikes and you could w

Many still consider the Arai helmet to be one of the best brands out there and this is their new helmet for 2021. The Quantic sits somewhere under the sporty RX-7V and above the Profile-V, and is billed as more of a sports-touring helmet. It’s the fi

Large capacity Italian classics have never been low priced, but a Laverda 3C is about as close as it gets to being a cost-effective period Latin superbike. That said, they certainly don’t come cheap! For an example, like our bike featured here you’ll

1986: The GSX-R1100G: oil and air-cooled 1052cc DOHC 16-valve engine, five speeds, 18-inch wheels, 197 kilos (434lb) dry. 1987: GSX-R1100H unchanged apart from graphics. 1988: GSX-R1100J wider rims, three-spoke wheels, bigger 160/60ZR18 rear tyr

The 3C and some of its descendants have an unusual exhaust note that turns into a singularly unique wail as the revs rise; they also have a decidedly lumpy tick-over, but why? The three-cylinder engine runs an atypical 180-degree crank, not the more

“The TC120 was, to be honest, an easy resto, the only difficulty being the protracted search to find a decent front light assembly as that was missing. It’s very much like the Bearcat to ride with more or less the same engine. My step-granddaughter l

Open minds are always useful receptors to have and hone. It’s oh-so easy to know, without exception, the codes, model names, appellations and various market names for the machines we obsess over. In America many Japanese bikes received names dreamt

ENGINE TYPE Four-stroke air-cooled, DOHC triple, 5-speed transmission DISPLACEMENT 980cc BORE X STROKE 75 x 74mm COMPRESSION RATIO 9.0:1 MAX HP 78bhp @ 7250rpm MAX TORQUE 63.4ft-lb @ 5000rpm CARBURATION 3 x 32 PHF Dell’Orto WHEELBASE 1460mm/57

ENGINE: Air/oil-cooled, four-cylinder, four-stroke CAPACITY: 1127cc BORE & STROKE: 78 x 59mm COMPRESSION RATIO: 10:1 CARBURETION: 36mm Mikuni BST36SS x 4 MAX POWER: 130hp @ 9500rpm (claimed, rear wheel) TORQUE: 85ft-lb @ 7500rpm IGNITION: Digi

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We’ve made no bones about how saucy we think the MV Agusta Superveloce is and this is the sauciest – and it’s another sell out! MV launched a limited-edition Superveloce 75 Anniversario some time ago (which sold out) and so has this: the Superveloce

The TC suffix was used, almost it would appear, at random, for bikes that might or might not have off-road aspirations and credentials yet didn’t seem to fit anywhere else in Suzuki’s range. Several references suggest the name seems to first appear